Dredd had a really poor advertising campaign. I think the first trailer only came out a few weeks before it's release when for other films it's months in advance.

I think the first footage I saw was actually a VFX breakdown that somehow made it's way into YouTube but it didn't stay there long.

There was a big campaign to get a sequel and Dredd on Blu-ray rose to #1 in the Amazon sales charts.

One of the executive producers, Adi Shankar, explained in a YouTube video that he appreciated the effort but the big problem was the box office returns. Everyone who invested made a loss, so no one wanted to invest in a sequel.

Rebellion were going to make a Mega City One series which may have had appearances from Dredd occasionally but I think that project has stalled.

Honor Among Thieves was so good. I couldn't stop geeking out over how much D&D was in it. They even cameo'd the freaking Animated Series party! It's nuts.

I think the worst thing about Dredd not getting a sequel is people who only see it will think he was just a generic action hero.

it is absolutely baffling to me that Dredd (2012) has a better review score than Judge Dredd (1995) (a far superior movie in my opinion).

I know the camera operator that shot Mr Robot. They created a completely new camera framing language. Breaking the norms and conventions. It really deserves more recognition than it got.

I thought nothing could top Breaking Bad, but then I watched Mr. Robot.

The creativity, cinematography and unique ideas in that are outstanding. The episode with almost no dialogue is particularly brilliant.

I watched the first season and found it cringe.

I thought the ending was atrocious tbh, had it been as strong as the early show I would've been talking about it!

I watched Blade Runner 2049 about half year after its release, and about 15 years after I watched the firs movie. My reaction was "I do not understand all the criticism of 2049 - it is a good movie". And then I decided to rewatch the first movie. And then I understood. And that's despite of the fact that the first movie is really old.

People just don't have the patience anymore to soak in a mood and atmosphere while a story slowly unfolds.

It's a worthy successor to the original, which is remarkable.

I missed seeing the original in theaters (just a bit too young, then only got to see it on VHS) but caught a theatrical showing with my son and his friend just before 2049 came out and man, two great flicks to see on the big screen. TV just do not do these types of movies justice.

Blade Runner PC game by westwood was also amazing, but didnt seem to get any traction.

Fucking fantastic game, though. Everyone should play it.. theres an enhanced now, so you don't have to do the weirdo workaround shit with the 16bit installer.

Like, it’s fine, but I don’t feel like it was anything special?

Absolutely love that show. I kinda have to be in a good headspace to watch it though, cause it has definitely had a negative impact on my own depressive thoughts before. But that show can be so damn cathartic and just a great watch overall

It’s popular and well-loved, but I agree - I always say that the penultimate episode of the final season is the greatest episode of television ever made.

Yes! I was thinking of this when I wrote the question. I feel like it was great and just totally disappeared.

I kept thinking about it's parody ads when all those 'we're in this together' ads kept playing during the start of the pandemic.

I would upvote this fifty times if I could. Better Off Ted was an absolute gem.

If I could get a version of the movie with the swish sounds removed then it'd be 10/10. I love that movie

not without incident.

Don't forget that it's riding heavily on the cinematic style of The Matrix. Doesn't matter though, still an excellent movie, especially if you watched it as a teenager!

I always thought that Stargate: Universe was a Firefly situation. Maybe it was a touch below Battlestar Galactica, but it's not ludicrous to mention them in the same sentence.

It's been a long time since I watched, but people mention the way the world actually changes and grows as it progresses. In Star Trek, they use phasors the exact same way for centuries, in Stargate their M.O. completely changes from start to finish of the series.

The Last Man on Earth was also amazing and under recognized.

Just make sure to never - never - watch the sequal

Great watch!

My only gripe was the fact that he actually declared himself as [the one they accused him of being]. I wonder what would have happened if he kept it subtle or even passed it off as "It's a joke guys" in a convincing manner. Would have been left to audience interpretations and may have increased tension. One may never know.

Such a good movie and a great showcase of Steve Carrell's (and the rest of the cast's) range, managing to be heartbreaking and laugh out loud funny throughout the movie.

Only when colour blind tests come up

I loved SCC, it was such a great show that didn't get the attention it deserved.

Pullo was the best character ever.

As great as it is, you could tell they had to cramp two season's worth of story into the second season so that it felt very rushed and important side characters died off screen. And then of course the sets burned down ironically, making any continuation impossible.

Co-created by Graham Linehan who also did Father Ted and The IT Crowd. Shows about misanthropic priests and IT dept guys with idiots for sidekicks. It's a winning formula.

This is one of my absolute favorites. Few shows get a proper laugh out of me, but him coming out in a jacket made of his tax receipts me ever time.

Yeeees. I've tried to get so many people to watch it. "It's like literature in TV show form, you've just gotta!" Nobody has. It's so, so, so good. I've watched it multiple times and, weirdly, it's become comfort TV, despite how heavy it gets.

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I was in Deadwood SD this summer, I'll have to check out the series. Thanks for the suggestion!

Shit, close to 10 years after we stopped playing, my wife was playing WOW and someone was all, "Icarii... from Corbantis? I bought so many weapons off you, yours were the best!"

I have good news for you! SWGEMU dot COM. Development has been going on for damn near 20 years now. Hope you have your original install discs or it'll be the high seas for you, mate.

So say we all

I was going to comment Caprica, which most BSG fans havnt even seen. For what it was, I really liked it, it's a shame it only got the first season

How has it aged? Is it still worth watching in 2023 if I haven't?

EDIT: Thanks guys, already downloaded!

Did you mean Taika Waititi's TV show (that I didn't know existed) or Terry Gilliam's movie? The movie was amazing

EDIT: actually the TV show isn't out yet, so I guess you don't mean that

I've watched it about 4 or 5 times, including when it was originally aired.

It's consistently mentioned for both of those aspects, actually. Like, google pretty much any review of the movie and you're going to see one or both of those things mentioned with almost absolute certainty.

Honestly, I’d say that Splinter Cell is considered to have had a larger impact on gaming than it really did. For example, you claim that Splinter Cell was the first game where lighting mattered - at the very least, Thief: The Dark Project featured that very prominently, four years earlier, but I doubt that was even the first.

Splinter Cell basically just copied Thief and Metal Gear Solid’s homework and changed it up a bit, I’d say it’s inferior to both games, and yet is often considered to be one of the best games ever made.

I miss those games so much. Nothing out there now compares to

Besides everything else, the show is a master class in acting. Every character has her own walk, speech pattern, and gestures.

Her acting skills on the series were amazing! She was my main reason to start She-Hulk, but meh.

Not sure if it depends on the region, but AFAIK Orphan Black it's a Netflix original and it's not on their platform anymore. I found out because of a mexican series, Triada which is way to similar to focus on the bits that make this story original.

Started strong, the got a bit dull

For me Ergo Proxy

Steins;Gate is one of those few shows I'd recommend which come with the annoying disclaimer "You need to watch until episode X and then you're in for a ride"

And what a ride. Tuturuuu.

You talked me into it, at least.

Ah good thing the sequel is coming out any day now!

Any day now..

Any day now..

Propaganda 👍

That sounds really interesting as I try (and often fail) to live my life that way.

If memory serves, it was written as a miniseries, not a show that would span multiple seasons. Then the network saw how popular it was and demanded multiple seasons. But the writers had already written all the source material they had expected to.

Remember when Peter's girlfriend got lost in time and then was never mentioned again...

It's been a long time since I've watched B5, but have a few times. Curreltly watching Stargate S02E21.

Any insight into why in the world they'd greenlight Jericho to begin with if they seemed so uninterested in supporting it? It's certainly not the first show to run into a situation like that, but it's always kind of interesting to see how the reasoning may vary across businesses with each show.

Absolutely loved that game. I even fell for a couple of it's tricks when your character loses too much sanity.

I feel like if this one was particularly unknown, it wouldn't be so goddamn expensive.

You're right though, more people should play this

Really good series. I was particularly happy to see Amy Acker get a juicy long-running role after getting screwed in Dollhouse.

Did it end prematurely or is there a conclusion?

Absolutely! An amazing show.

Hey, I think we found Kevin Smith's account

"This here's an m80, it's like a quarter-stick of dynamite. Tape four of these bad boys together, it's like half a stick of dynamite!"

That show deserved better, as did the Clerks comic series. My father was so fucking proud the day he brought home the DVD, and we watched it over and fucking over. "Bear is driving, how can that be?!" lives right up there with "Haha! Cookies on dowels!" in my head.

Hell, I've wanted to do the "Is it safe?" bit before when doing overnight/early morning stocking in a store. Sometimes you get that one person who comes in the moment the store opens, and somehow manages to get in the way.

This was the last show I thought I'd read on this thread! If you're able to get it on DVD, highly recommended for the bonus features.

Oof. It's fucked, right? Growing up, I thought anti-Semitism was a joke, because how could anyone actually believe that?

I also was stupid and didn't realise how near the past was, and that bad ideas don't ever just disappear completely.

Oh man, and that's by far the most talked-about genocide. Literally any other gets even less attention, and probably has sort-of-mainstream deniers.

I think we must be close to peak relevance for Network, maybe on the downhill side. Technology is transforming the whole industry in a pretty dramatic way.

I'm adding Player Piano to my reading list.

Seconding Player Piano. Both it and Cat's Cradle were almost explicitly based on his time with GE, and they've both gained more cultural relevance over the years.

My friends and I went to see The Thin Red Line in the theater on opening night. It was literally a sold out showing. We ended up having to sit in the second row.

After the first 40 minutes or so we noticed a few groups of people walking out. 20 minutes later a few more groups left. It became a slow trickle of people just getting up and leaving.

When the movie ended and the credits began I turned around to look at who was left. There was literally just one other guy sitting a few rows behind us.

I get it. It came out on the heels of Saving Private Ryan, it was marketed as a similar style "war movie", it had a laundry list of big names who were only onscreen for a few minutes... all those people ended up watching a deep, languid reflection on life, love and the very nature of humanity. So yeah, not a typical formula for box office dynamite.

I understand why so many people would not be able to sit through the entire run time, but it's honestly their loss. I loved the movie, and the shock of turning around to see an empty auditorium made the experience even more memorable.

Wow sounds super interesting. A bit like a precursor to Diablo?

Damn, 2016 was a stacked year for film.

Dreamcast games are very easily emulated, fyi, if you haven't played it in awhile. The Dreamcast is probably my favorite console of all-time. So many unique, warm and fuzzy late-night memories staying up with that bad boy.

I feel like if it's made a big enough impression to have a mental health disorder named after it, it might not count.

I don't think this one is underrated. It's quite rated.

It is my all time favorite movie.

Pete Holmes is a treasure

I have vague memories of watching this years ago. It was amusing but not very memorable.

Loved "Dream on" although I don't know how it holds up. I've only seen it when it was new, and Family Guy has down the "cut to humorous clip" gag to death.

Best show over is a stretch, but it holds it's own in the face of the giants HBO has created over the years.

Also what’s not underrated but has inadequate social impact, as if Big Lebowski or Arrested Development did have adequate social impact??

I think OP refers to the fact that they didn't gain immediate popularity, rather they developed a cult following as time passed.
The Big Lebowski was almost a box office bomb, as it costed 15M$ and it struggled to raise 18M$ in the US, while Arrested Development poor scheduling didn't allow it to gain a sizeable audience right away, halting the production after the 3rd season.

Firefly is an excellent space western. Made by Josh Whedon, it lasted one season and got the movie Serenity as a "wrap up"

Fox intentionally killed the show. There's all sorts of drama that surrounded the series, but despite tons of fan support they couldn't save the show.

Firefly is the okiest space western ever, but it got cancelled by fox around 2000 and people started sacrificing their left testicles to try to bring about it's return.

Horrible abomination to anyone who read the books.

This show was the television equivalent of the smell of a dead skunk being roasted over a tire fire.

I have to disagree with you so hard on this. The show started OKish, but by the end was just bad. I was hoping they would just drop it. Hell, even the old Billy Zane version of the show was better.

That show should come with the disclaimer to avoid the season finale at all costs. Just terrible.